
Accounting for Decision Making and Control 7th Edition by Jerold Zimmerman
Edition 7ISBN: 978-0078136726
Accounting for Decision Making and Control 7th Edition by Jerold Zimmerman
Edition 7ISBN: 978-0078136726 Exercise 19
Milan Pasta
At its Lyle Avenue plant, Milan Pasta produces two types of pasta: spaghetti and fettuccine. The two pastas are produced on the same machines, with different settings and slightly different raw materials. The fettuccine, being a wider noodle and more susceptible to curling edges, requires
more inspection time. The total daily cost of inspection is $500. Here are daily production data for the two products:
Required:
a. Calculate the inspection cost per pound of pasta using traditional absorption costing with number of machine hours as the allocation base.
b. Calculate the inspection cost per pound of pasta using activity-based costing. Assume inspection time is the cost driver.
c. Analyze why inspection costs differ between the methods used in ( a ) and ( b ).
At its Lyle Avenue plant, Milan Pasta produces two types of pasta: spaghetti and fettuccine. The two pastas are produced on the same machines, with different settings and slightly different raw materials. The fettuccine, being a wider noodle and more susceptible to curling edges, requires
more inspection time. The total daily cost of inspection is $500. Here are daily production data for the two products:
Required: a. Calculate the inspection cost per pound of pasta using traditional absorption costing with number of machine hours as the allocation base.
b. Calculate the inspection cost per pound of pasta using activity-based costing. Assume inspection time is the cost driver.
c. Analyze why inspection costs differ between the methods used in ( a ) and ( b ).
Explanation
Absorption vs Activity Based Costing
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